questionText: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment he has made of the potential impact of land management practices on the amount of carbon stored in grassland soil.
answerText: In June 2019, the Environment Agency published a State of the Environment: Soil Report, which identified that intensive agriculture, such as ploughing up permanent pasture for arable crops or temporary grassland, usually reduces soil organic matter (inclu...
heading: Grasslands: Environment Protection